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From: osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Another vote for FINANCING
Keywords: or else forget Next till after college
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:10:33 GMT
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In article <3182@unccvax.uncc.edu> cs00bd@unccvax.uncc.edu (brian daniels) writes:
>If I wanted an IBM I could finance it.
>If I wanted an Apple I could finance it.
>Both have easy financing programs for students with reasonable interest
>rates.
>I want a NeXT--the computer designed for and by universities.
>I can't finance it.
>NeXT, are you listening?  I'm a student.  (Remember, the ones you designed
>the computer for)  I love your machine.  But unless some sort of
>student financing is created, I can't get one.
[above is edited]

People seem to be making an interesting assumption.  Specifically,
that NeXT is concerned with selling to students.  Certainly, the machine
makes a nice student computer, but I think that NeXT is far more worried
about selling to faculty and staff.

True, NeXT shouldn't get into the financial business.  But a program with
some well known credit organzation would be very useful.  (In other words,
the application, credit card, and other paperwork would have NeXT's name
on it, but MonolithicMegaCreditCorp would actually loan the money and
make the profit.

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-John H. Osborn
-osborn@cs.utexas.edu